Fun Trivia : Weather Songs

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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information

Weather Songs

Which blues legend wrote and had a hit with "Smokestack Lightning"?

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Howlin' Wolf. Covered by many blues acts including The Yardbirds (who altered and added to the original lyrics), few are brave enough to emulate Howlin' Wolf's famous howl; electrifying and scary.



"Sunshine of Your Love" was a hit for which British 'sixties act?

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Cream. I guess most of you already know the links between these groups but just in case; Eric Clapton was a member of The Yardbirds, Cream and Blind Faith; Steve Winwood was in Traffic and Blind Faith; Ginger Baker was in Cream and Blind Faith, great bands all.



"Blowing in the Wind" has been covered many, many times but who wrote it?

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Bob Dylan. Both Joan Baez and Neil Young have covered "Blowing in the Wind" but it was written by Bob Dylan. The highest chart position that the song achieved in Britain was number thirteen; Peter, Paul and Mary achieved this in 1963.



"Summer Breeze" was first taken into the American charts by Seals and Crofts in 1972. Two years later the song was covered by which act?

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The Isley Brothers. "Summer Breeze" got to number sixteen in 1974. The Isley Brothers' first hit in Britain was with "Twist and Shout" in 1963, a song covered by a band from Liverpool, can't think of their name.



The first record played on BBC Radio 1 was "Flowers in the Rain". Which Birmingham UK band recorded this?

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The Move. BBC Radio 1 started broadcasting in 1967, it was the first authorised radio station in the UK dedicated to playing pop and rock music. Before this we had to listen to the 'pirate stations' broadcasting from the North sea.



"Fog on the Tyne" was a number one album for this band in 1971 but the title track didn't enter the single charts until 1990. Can you remember who sang it?

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Lindisfarne. Lindisfarne were from the Newcastle area and the 1990 version of "Fog on the Tyne" included vocals by local footballer Paul Gascoigne; I'm sure it was 'Gazza's' beautiful voice that had people buying this version!



"Thunder" was a 1992 hit for which act?

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Prince. The credits from this hit went to Prince and the New Power Generation. It reached number 28 in the UK charts.



Who had a hit with "Always the Sun"?

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The Stranglers. "Always the Sun" was a later hit for The Stranglers reaching number 30 in 1986. Previously they had achieved six top ten hits.



"Hail to the Thief" was a fourth number one album for which band in 2003?

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Radiohead. Although "Hail to the Thief" was certainly a successful album, its fourteen week run on the chart doesn't bear too much comparison with Radiohead's "The Bends" which spent over three years in the top one hundred!